by be-webmaster | Aug 3, 2015 | News
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office A recently discovered family of small RNA molecules, some of which have been implicated in cancer progression, has just gotten much larger thanks to a new RNA sequencing technique developed by researchers at UC Santa...
by be-webmaster | May 18, 2015 | News
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office A coalition of leaders in the cancer genomics research community has published the first findings from a project to develop robust methods for detecting cancer mutations. The results, published May 18 in Nature Methods,...
by be-webmaster | May 13, 2015 | News
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Phil Berman has been working to develop an AIDS vaccine for nearly 30 years, first at the pioneering biotech company Genentech, then as cofounder of VaxGen, and now at UC Santa Cruz, where he is the Baskin Professor of...
by be-webmaster | Apr 13, 2015 | News
By Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz Public Information Office Tired of answering questions about cloning mammoths, Beth Shapiro, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, wrote a book called How to Clone a Mammoth. (Spoiler Alert: You can’t...
by be-webmaster | Mar 17, 2015 | News
By Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz Public Information Office Nader Pourmand, professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, is one of 16 finalists in Phase 1 of the Follow that Cell Challenge organized by the National Institutes of Health. The goal of the...